Also, I e mailed Wendy Carder in NC a while back to personally invite her, but she wrote back to say she'll be in Ohio that weekend. She would like to come and wants to be included again for the next event we do. [:(]

I know that we all have a distance to drive to even get to Columbia, so here's my dilemma as I think over our January trip.....

I like the idea of eating out somewhere, if we can find a place. But, the afternoon nap issue for our little ones (Ethan, Stephen, Dalton, Grace) is something that has to be worked around, don't you think? If we meet to eat lunch first (let's say 11:30 just for the sake of argument) then we're getting to the museum at what is typically naptime in my house, kwim? OR if we do the museum before lunch, we'd have to get there EARLY or we'd be starving because we had to wait so late to eat. Help....any ideas?

Ok so I did talk to SIL< she wasnt much help but said there are lots of kid friendly places around. She did say there is a pizza place in there and McDs does deliver to the museum...I thought that was weird...well I'll try to look up some places in the area after Stephens SLP this morning. FYI fast food makes me barfy so if that is the plan let me know so we can get something ahead of time. OR do you guys just want to bring a lunch again??

Jen had the idea to invite neighboring states to our meet and greet so I went ahead and sent a post out to GA & NC to invite them to our January meet and greet since some of them might be close to our state lines and would be willing to make the trip.